Improvement in fifth-wheels for carriages



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DARIUS VILCCX, OF BIRMINGHAM, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND WARREN VVILCOX, OF ANSONIA, CONNECTICUT.

Letters Patent No. 93,261, dated August 3, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN FIFTH-WHEELS FOR CARRIAGES.

The Schedule vreferred 'to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all. whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DARIUS VLLCOX, of Birmingham, in the county ot'New Haven, and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Fifth- NVheel tor Garriages; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, and the letters ot' reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description oi' the same, and which said drawings eonstitutepart ot' this speciication, and represent, in

Figure 1, a top View,

Figure 2, a central section, and in Figure 3, a sectional view-of the head, enlarged.

This invention relates to an improvement in the connection of the fifth-wheel to the perch, the chief object being to prevent rattling; and

The invention consists in the arrangement of a yoke upon the perch, so as to cover the iifth-\vheel, the said yoke enclosing an India-rubber spring, with a hardened-steel head, hearing upon the perch, and having combined therewith a set-screw to adjust the springs, so that the fifth-wheel may be bound together with sutiic-ient pressure to prevent its rattling, so as to move freely.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use illustrated in theaccompanying drawings.

A is the perch.

B, the xed part of the fifth-wheel, securely attached to the perch.

C is the fifth-wheel, arranged so as to turn upon the part B in the usual manner.v

Upon the perch is fixed a yoke, D, which passes over the fifth-wheel, and is there formed into a head, E, as seen in iig; 2, the said head being recessed, so as to receive an India-ruimer spring, a, the spring heilig of tubular form, so as to receive thc shank d of the plate b, which bears upon the fifth-Wheel, as seen in iig. 2.

The plate b is made from steel, hardened` Through the head a set-screw, F, is arranged, which bears upon a plate, c, so that the power of the spring may be adjusted by the turning of the set-screw.

I do not wishl to he understood as broadly claiming the arrangement ot' an India-rubber spring upon a nfth-wheel to prevent rattling; but

What I do 'claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1 The tubular spring a, arranged within the hea E of the yoke D, with the hardened-steel plate l), vbearing upon the iiftlr-wheel C, as set forth.

2. In combination with the above, the adjustingscrewli, with its plateC, substantially as described.l WVitnesses: DARIUS YVILCOX.

JOHN H. SHUMwrnf, 

